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"And remember that it is forever. The face will always be there to be stamped on. The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again. ... The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease. It will be a world of terror as much as a world of triumph. The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant; the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism. ....
"We control life, Winston, at all levels. You are imagining that the is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable. Or perhaps you have returned to your old idea that the proletarians or the slaves will rise and overthrow us. Put it out of you mind. They are helpless, like the animals. Humanity is the Party. Th others are outside - irrelevant."
Orwell. 1984
